Anyone know a word to describe "things left in books?"
I like the term "Consigned to Oblivion" although the official definitions of the expression are too dark and ominous for the items we find at the Bottom Shelf bookstore in our donated material. This week, there was a sink plug in the Found Things envelope. A sink plug!! Was someone going down the drain? I used to pack a sink plug when traveling in Europe back in the old days when it was useful. Cheap hotels rarely gave you a plug and it's surprising how much you miss such a simple convenience. I wonder if that's how this particular plug turned into a bookmark?
Other items we liked: A flyer from Himelhoch's department store (Grosse Ile, Michigan) which features 50's vintage L'Aiglon dresses. Although I never owned one of them, my sister had one similar in style.
Note the man's arm supporting the model. Holding her up? Holding her back?
Remember the dyed-to-match shoes? I've never gotten over it and still look for shoes to match an outfit.
When I googled the brand, I found this on www.vintagefashionguild.org:
Searching online I found Forgotten Bookmarks — a book by Michael Popek. He's also compiled Hand Written Recipes, a collection of recipes found in used books and recipe books.
I like the term "Consigned to Oblivion" although the official definitions of the expression are too dark and ominous for the items we find at the Bottom Shelf bookstore in our donated material. This week, there was a sink plug in the Found Things envelope. A sink plug!! Was someone going down the drain? I used to pack a sink plug when traveling in Europe back in the old days when it was useful. Cheap hotels rarely gave you a plug and it's surprising how much you miss such a simple convenience. I wonder if that's how this particular plug turned into a bookmark?
Other items we liked: A flyer from Himelhoch's department store (Grosse Ile, Michigan) which features 50's vintage L'Aiglon dresses. Although I never owned one of them, my sister had one similar in style.
Note the man's arm supporting the model. Holding her up? Holding her back?
Remember the dyed-to-match shoes? I've never gotten over it and still look for shoes to match an outfit.
When I googled the brand, I found this on www.vintagefashionguild.org:
L’Aiglon was founded in 1919 in Philadelphia as part of Biberman Brothers, Inc. The company’s original label read “Biberman Make” but changed in 1919 to “L’Aiglon”. On those early labels you will find “Biberman Make” in small letters. Biberman Make dresses were “wash dresses”, or washable. “Tubable” was the word of the era. Biberman also made bathrobes and uniforms for maids and nurses.
Its founder, Joseph Biberman, committed suicide in 1933 as a result of financial difficulties during the Great Depression. The company, however, survived, and continued to make inexpensive but stylish and attractive dresses for women and juniors. During the 1950s, L’Aiglon dresses were used as costumes on the soap opera, The Edge of Night. The company produced dresses until about 1968.
Written by Lizzie Bramlett, fuzzylizzie.com
Another item I liked is this Photo Booth strip—so fresh and innocent compared to the studied selfies we see daily on Instagram and Facebook. These two were simply having a good time.
Would you use your Certificate of Citizenship as a book mark?
The postal air mail service flew five times a days in 1937. The spelling error "indorsement" suggests that proof readers were no better then than now. But maybe "indorsement" was the intended word and not endorsement. Even then I doubt "ounce" and "anywhere" should have been capitalized.
And finally, how about this Polaroid shot dated October 1965? The boy would be about 67 now. I wonder if the photo was hiding in the book for all those years?
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